William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist from Massachusetts. Consequently, he joined the abolitionist movement at 25 when he became associated with the American Colonization Society. However, he left the ACS at 30 when he came to the realization that many of the members in the society only wanted to move the free slaves out of America. After this, Garrison worked as a co-editor of an anti-slavery paper titled The Genius of Universal Emancipation. On January 1, 1831, he published the first issue of an anti-slavery newspaper he had created himself, The Liberator. Garrison used this newspaper to advocate the immediate emancipation of all slaves. In 1832, Garrison helped form the New England Antislavery Society. The society was the first in America
